This song is another cover however this one unlike my previous post is played by a quartet known as The Vitamin String Quartet. “Don’t Stop Believing” is a very famous popular song by the rock band Journey. They musicians in this recording use multiple classical techniques in order to achieve the effect of the song as well as making their performance high art. The use pizzicato is used in this piece to attain a more guitar like sound, while still being very distinctly string. They also play staccato, making the accompaniment to the melody sound much more detached, much more like rock music. Classical musicians use a lot of vibrato when playing which is they vibrate their hand on the string to makes for for a nicer sound as it has more vibration and just makes notes sound smother and more accurate. You can hear in the melody, the vibrato, especially in the lower strings.
